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[ UK /ɹˈa‍ɪd/ ]
[ US /ˈɹaɪd/ ]
VERB
  1. sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions
    Did you ever ride a camel?
    The girl liked to drive the young mare
    She never sat a horse!
  2. harass with persistent criticism or carping
    Don't ride me so hard over my failure
    His fellow workers razzed him when he wore a jacket and tie
    The children teased the new teacher
  3. ride over, along, or through
    Ride the freeways of California
  4. copulate with
    The bull was riding the cow
  5. move like a floating object
    The moon rode high in the night sky
  6. be sustained or supported or borne
    The child rode on his mother's hips
    She rode a wave of popularity
    The brothers rode to an easy victory on their father's political name
    His glasses rode high on his nose
  7. be carried or travel on or in a vehicle
    I ride to work in a bus
    He rides the subway downtown every day
  8. continue undisturbed and without interference
    Let it ride
  9. keep partially engaged by slightly depressing a pedal with the foot
    Don't ride the clutch!
  10. sit on and control a vehicle
    She loves to ride her new motorcycle through town
    He rides his bicycle to work every day
  11. lie moored or anchored
    Ship rides at anchor
  12. be contingent on
    The outcomes rides on the results of the election
    Your grade will depends on your homework
  13. have certain properties when driven
    This car rides smoothly
    My new truck drives well
  14. climb up on the body
    This skirt keeps riding up my legs
    Shorts that ride up
NOUN
  1. a mechanical device that you ride for amusement or excitement
  2. a journey in a vehicle (usually an automobile)
    he took the family for a drive in his new car

How To Use ride In A Sentence

  • By adding the chlorides of strontian, uranium, potassium, sodium, iron, or copper to the liquid, various effects may be produced, and these bodies will be found to produce the same color on the plate that their flame gives to alcohol. American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype
  • Maybe they should have a little log cabin, a hayride at Halloween, or Christmas scenery.
  • It is a lovely night, and why should we not prolong our ride a little?
  • ‘I want to come back when it's a bit quieter,’ I shouted over the din of amplified music, throbbing diesel generators and rattling joy rides.
  • Solomon himself impersonated the phallic god Baal-Rimmon, "Lord of the Pomegranate," when he was united with his divine bride, the mysterious Shulamite, and drank the juice of her pomegranate Song of Solomon 8:2. Archive 2008-03-01
  • The ride can feel a bit harsh at times but cabin noise is low. The Sun
  • I am eager to learn how to ride a bicycle.
  • Thus, developing a vaccine directed against one or a few capsular polysaccharides may not be widely effective.
  • Metformin and sulfonylurea drugs -- the latter a class of diabetes drugs including glyburide, glipizide, chlorpropamide, tolbutamide and tolazamide -- are often among the first medications prescribed to lower blood sugar levels in people with type 2 diabetes. Drug linked to increased risk for older diabetics
  • Schedule 3 comprises a number of toxic or precursor chemicals with widespread industrial uses, such as phosgene, hydrogen cyanide, phosphorus trichloride and thionyl chloride.
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